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Windows Mail Replaces Outlook Express

by Jason Bean on October 31st, 2006

Windows Vista Mail application replaces Outlook Express
An area that hasn’t gotten much press with all the talk about Vista, IE7 and the new Office 2007, is lowly Outlook Express.

The Lifehacker site has a great gallery of screen shots and details about the application. Gina Trapani wasn’t too impressed with the developments although she did state it was still a nice upgrade to Outlook Express.

But when I dove into Windows Mail (I’m running Vista RC 1), I was a bit disappointed. Is Windows Mail an update to Outlook Express? Definitely. The contact management and built-in Junk mail filtering is really nice. But would I consider giving up Thunderbird for it? No way.

I’m running Outlook 2007 and am VERY happy with my experience with the upgrade. I do have plenty of clients that are still using Outlook Express for their e-mail client, as well as having my mom running Thunderbird for her e-mail. As always, we’ll see how everything plays out in the end.

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7 opinions for Windows Mail Replaces Outlook Express

  • Eric Y.
    Nov 23, 2006 at 8:20 am

    Forget Windows mail or live mail, etc. I want to know WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE NEW MESSAGE FEATURE FROM THE DROP DOWN MENU FROM THE MAIL ICON ON THE TOOLBAR THAT WAS IN IE6 and previous versions of IE. I DO NOT want to have to open my damn freaking mail every time I need to create a message. IE7 ELIMINATED this feature. I DO NOT want to keep my Outlook open all the time, because it’s not that important. Does someone have a toll-free for Bill Gates?

  • Milan
    Jan 21, 2007 at 7:20 am

    I use Outloook too. I’ve used Outlook Express for a long time. They sad that Windows Mail is completely rewritten Outlook Express and I also expected it to be something better or at least much different from Outlook Express :(

  • jijo
    Nov 14, 2007 at 7:57 am

    how to convert windows mail(o/s :windows vista)
    outlook express (o/s : windows xp sp2 )

  • Michael
    Nov 28, 2007 at 12:58 am

    We are converting back from Vista to XP, and we’d like to move the email folders from Windows Mail to Outlook Express. With Outlook Express, I’d move around the dbx files along with folders.dbx. Windows Mail uses .EML files. Any advice on this?

  • le tuan
    Mar 26, 2008 at 10:14 am

    how to convert windows mail to outlook express

  • Jason Bean
    Mar 26, 2008 at 10:17 am

    Was that a question on how to uninstall and get back to Outlook Express from Windows Mail?

  • Dave Backschies
    Apr 30, 2008 at 12:13 am

    I hope so. I just went back to XP and would love to comvert my Windows Mail messages to Outlook Express format. Does anyone know how?

    Dave

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